Today's attack on Israel was a military operation from the re-islamicized Turkey, with the tacit support of the Erdogan government. Turkey intends to become a regional
power, perhaps a return of the Ottoman empire.

Turkey has warned that its relationship with Israel has been severely
damaged after at least nine people died when troops stormed ships
trying to break the Gaza blockade.

The Turkish government has long been Israel's main regional
ally but called the raid an act of state terrorism and has accused
Israel of violating international law.

Turkey has recalled its Ambassador form
Israel and called it an act of piracy on the high seas after supporting the convoy of war ships.

The latest attack on Israel came from
............... the once moderate, Israeli ally Turkey. But no more,
not since the re-islamization of Turkey where the
number #1 selling book is Mein Kampf

The July 2007 election win of devout
Muslims in Turkey (AK party) over the moderates was a red flag. The
warning, yet again, of Turkey’s re- islamization. After decades of
Ataturk's moderation, Turkey turned - and turned harder still with the August
2007 election of an Islamic fundamentalist, Prime Minister, Tayyip Recep Erdogan. His
devout, pure Islamic leanings are here
and
here.

[Erdogan] is the
first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state
since the creation of the deeply secular Turkish Republic in 1923.

On Monday the military warned about
threats to the secular constitution.

While participating on a Middle East panel
of the Academy of Achievement in Chicago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, warned against religious definitions of terrorism and
specifically
objected to the phrases "Islamic terror" and "moderate Islam."

Reacting to Congresswoman Jane Harman's use
of 'moderate Islam', Erdogan
said, "Turkey is not a country where moderate Islam is sovereign.
First of all,
the 'moderate Islam' concept is wrong. The word 'Islam' is a
simple word -- it
is only Islam. If you say 'moderate Islam,' then an alternative
is created, and
that is 'immoderate Islam.' I cannot accept such a concept as a
Muslim. Islam
rejects excessivenesses. I am not a radical Muslim. We are Muslims who
have
found a middle road."

The Muslim world
smells blood in the wake of the US weakness
under Obama. The US has created a power vacuum, first in Iraq. And now by
turning
its back on Israel, the entire Middle East will be up for a huge
power grab.

The media has been dangerously silent in their reportage of Turkey's IHH, which has both Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian backing. Ahmadinejad wants a Hamas alliance with his Hizbollah puppets.

IHH,
which plays a central role in organizing the flotilla to the Gaza
Strip, is a Turkish humanitarian relief fund with a radical Islamic
anti-Western orientation. Besides its legitimate philanthropic
activities, it supports radical Islamic networks, including Hamas, and
at least in the past, even global jihad elements.

1. Prominent among the coalition
organizations participating in the aid flotilla scheduled to arrive in
the Gaza Strip in the coming days is the Turkish IHH (Insani
Yardim Vakfi, IHH, “humanitarian relief fund”). It is a
radical Islamic organization which was established in 1992 and formally
registered in Istanbul in 1995. It is headed by Bülent
Yildirim.

IHH head Bülent Yildirim
(www.ihh.org.tr, April 7, 2010)

2. IHH has a broad program of important
activities in distressed areas. They include sending food and support
to orphans, establishing educational institutions, hospitals and
clinics, programs for vocational education, supplying medicines,
building mosques and preventing the violation of human rights in
various Islamic locations throughout the world. In recent years it has
begun widening its activities to European countries, in part by
establishing branches which bear its name.

3. In practice, besides its legitimate
humanitarian activities, IHH supports radical Islamic terrorist
networks. In recent years it has prominently supported Hamas (through
the Union of Good). In addition, the ITIC has reliable
information that in the past IHH provided logistical support and
funding to global jihad networks.

IHH logo: The dove of peace appears at the
lower right of the globe.

IHH Links To Hamas

4. IHH’s orientation is radical-Islamic
and anti-American, and it is close to the Muslim
Brotherhood (Hamas’ parent movement). IHH supports
Hamas and does not hide the connection between them. Hamas
also considers its links to IHH and Turkey to be extremely important,
and regards Turkey as a target audience for its propaganda network
(Palestine-Information, Hamas’ main website, has a Turkish version, and
as of the end of 2009, the website of its military wing, the Izz
al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has also appeared in Turkish).

5. In recent years, especially since
Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, IHH has supported Hamas’ propaganda
campaigns by organizing public support conferences in Turkey. At those
conferences, which featured the participation of senior IHH figures, the
heads of IHH expressed their support for Hamas and its strategy
(including the armed struggle it favors), in defiance of the
Palestinian Authority, Hamas’ rival.

6. IHH is a member of the Union
of Good, an umbrella organization of more than 50 Islamic funds and
foundations around the globe, which channels money into Hamas
institutions in the Palestinian Authority-administered territories.
As a Union of Good member IHH has connections with other worldwide
Islamic funds and foundations which support Hamas. Among other things,
the support includes initiating and conducting joint projects whose
objectives are to bolster the de facto Hamas administration in the Gaza
Strip and Hamas’ civilian infrastructure in Judea and Samaria,
which also supports terrorism (the infrastructure is under
pressure from the Palestinian Authority security services). IHH, which
has become an important factor in global fund-raising for Hamas,
transfers significant amounts of money to Hamas institutions in Judea
and Samaria, including the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron
and the Al-Tadhamun Charitable Society in Nablus (Hamas’ two central
“charitable societies,” both outlawed by Israel).

7. IHH operates widely
throughout the Gaza Strip. To promote its activities it
opened a branch there, headed by Muhammad Kaya,
who recently stated that IHH intended to send other aid
flotillas to the Gaza Strip (See below). In January 2008 an
IHH delegation met with Ahmed Bahar, a senior Hamas
activist who is acting chairman of Hamas’ council in the Gaza Strip. At
the meeting the delegation revealed the extent of the aid it had given
Hamas in the Gaza Strip during the preceding year and said it intended
to double the sum in the future. In January 2009 IHH head
Bülent Yildirim met with Khaled Mashaal, chairman of Hamas’
political bureau in Damascus, and Mashaal thanked him for the support
of his organization.

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Re-Islamicized Turkey Turns a Corner, Turns Against, Attacks Israel

Today's attack on Israel was a military operation from the re-islamicized Turkey, with the tacit support of the Erdogan government. Turkey intends to become a regional
power, perhaps a return of the Ottoman empire.

Turkey has warned that its relationship with Israel has been severely
damaged after at least nine people died when troops stormed ships
trying to break the Gaza blockade.

The Turkish government has long been Israel's main regional
ally but called the raid an act of state terrorism and has accused
Israel of violating international law.

Turkey has recalled its Ambassador form
Israel and called it an act of piracy on the high seas after supporting the convoy of war ships.

The latest attack on Israel came from
............... the once moderate, Israeli ally Turkey. But no more,
not since the re-islamization of Turkey where the
number #1 selling book is Mein Kampf

The July 2007 election win of devout
Muslims in Turkey (AK party) over the moderates was a red flag. The
warning, yet again, of Turkey’s re- islamization. After decades of
Ataturk's moderation, Turkey turned - and turned harder still with the August
2007 election of an Islamic fundamentalist, Prime Minister, Tayyip Recep Erdogan. His
devout, pure Islamic leanings are here
and
here.

[Erdogan] is the
first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state
since the creation of the deeply secular Turkish Republic in 1923.

On Monday the military warned about
threats to the secular constitution.

While participating on a Middle East panel
of the Academy of Achievement in Chicago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, warned against religious definitions of terrorism and
specifically
objected to the phrases "Islamic terror" and "moderate Islam."

Reacting to Congresswoman Jane Harman's use
of 'moderate Islam', Erdogan
said, "Turkey is not a country where moderate Islam is sovereign.
First of all,
the 'moderate Islam' concept is wrong. The word 'Islam' is a
simple word -- it
is only Islam. If you say 'moderate Islam,' then an alternative
is created, and
that is 'immoderate Islam.' I cannot accept such a concept as a
Muslim. Islam
rejects excessivenesses. I am not a radical Muslim. We are Muslims who
have
found a middle road."

The Muslim world
smells blood in the wake of the US weakness
under Obama. The US has created a power vacuum, first in Iraq. And now by
turning
its back on Israel, the entire Middle East will be up for a huge
power grab.

The media has been dangerously silent in their reportage of Turkey's IHH, which has both Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian backing. Ahmadinejad wants a Hamas alliance with his Hizbollah puppets.

IHH,
which plays a central role in organizing the flotilla to the Gaza
Strip, is a Turkish humanitarian relief fund with a radical Islamic
anti-Western orientation. Besides its legitimate philanthropic
activities, it supports radical Islamic networks, including Hamas, and
at least in the past, even global jihad elements.

1. Prominent among the coalition
organizations participating in the aid flotilla scheduled to arrive in
the Gaza Strip in the coming days is the Turkish IHH (Insani
Yardim Vakfi, IHH, “humanitarian relief fund”). It is a
radical Islamic organization which was established in 1992 and formally
registered in Istanbul in 1995. It is headed by Bülent
Yildirim.

IHH head Bülent Yildirim
(www.ihh.org.tr, April 7, 2010)

2. IHH has a broad program of important
activities in distressed areas. They include sending food and support
to orphans, establishing educational institutions, hospitals and
clinics, programs for vocational education, supplying medicines,
building mosques and preventing the violation of human rights in
various Islamic locations throughout the world. In recent years it has
begun widening its activities to European countries, in part by
establishing branches which bear its name.

3. In practice, besides its legitimate
humanitarian activities, IHH supports radical Islamic terrorist
networks. In recent years it has prominently supported Hamas (through
the Union of Good). In addition, the ITIC has reliable
information that in the past IHH provided logistical support and
funding to global jihad networks.

IHH logo: The dove of peace appears at the
lower right of the globe.

IHH Links To Hamas

4. IHH’s orientation is radical-Islamic
and anti-American, and it is close to the Muslim
Brotherhood (Hamas’ parent movement). IHH supports
Hamas and does not hide the connection between them. Hamas
also considers its links to IHH and Turkey to be extremely important,
and regards Turkey as a target audience for its propaganda network
(Palestine-Information, Hamas’ main website, has a Turkish version, and
as of the end of 2009, the website of its military wing, the Izz
al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has also appeared in Turkish).

5. In recent years, especially since
Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, IHH has supported Hamas’ propaganda
campaigns by organizing public support conferences in Turkey. At those
conferences, which featured the participation of senior IHH figures, the
heads of IHH expressed their support for Hamas and its strategy
(including the armed struggle it favors), in defiance of the
Palestinian Authority, Hamas’ rival.

6. IHH is a member of the Union
of Good, an umbrella organization of more than 50 Islamic funds and
foundations around the globe, which channels money into Hamas
institutions in the Palestinian Authority-administered territories.
As a Union of Good member IHH has connections with other worldwide
Islamic funds and foundations which support Hamas. Among other things,
the support includes initiating and conducting joint projects whose
objectives are to bolster the de facto Hamas administration in the Gaza
Strip and Hamas’ civilian infrastructure in Judea and Samaria,
which also supports terrorism (the infrastructure is under
pressure from the Palestinian Authority security services). IHH, which
has become an important factor in global fund-raising for Hamas,
transfers significant amounts of money to Hamas institutions in Judea
and Samaria, including the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron
and the Al-Tadhamun Charitable Society in Nablus (Hamas’ two central
“charitable societies,” both outlawed by Israel).

7. IHH operates widely
throughout the Gaza Strip. To promote its activities it
opened a branch there, headed by Muhammad Kaya,
who recently stated that IHH intended to send other aid
flotillas to the Gaza Strip (See below). In January 2008 an
IHH delegation met with Ahmed Bahar, a senior Hamas
activist who is acting chairman of Hamas’ council in the Gaza Strip. At
the meeting the delegation revealed the extent of the aid it had given
Hamas in the Gaza Strip during the preceding year and said it intended
to double the sum in the future. In January 2009 IHH head
Bülent Yildirim met with Khaled Mashaal, chairman of Hamas’
political bureau in Damascus, and Mashaal thanked him for the support
of his organization.